‘After 200 years, I was it.’
"It was never an issue — that this was a woman or a man. We just got in there and worked hard..."
"It was never an issue — that this was a woman or a man. We just got in there and worked hard..."
“It was never an issue — that this was a woman or a man. We just got in there and worked hard. I’ve found if you’re honest with people and you really care and you’re trying to do the right thing, it isn’t a problem.”
Anne Cates never worried about being the only woman at a leadership table — even though she often was.After six years of service as a trustee, Cates was named chair of the board in 1999 — becoming the first woman to lead the group in its more 200-year history.
“After 200 years, I was it,” she said.
Serving her alma mater the best she could was her only focus.
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Because of Cates’s decades of commitment to the University, she was awarded the William R. Davie Award.
